Friendly Quarrel

Last Sunday evening two negro women by the names of Carson and Barlow engaged in a fight down on Mr. Willie Newton's place near the southern corporate limits of Jackson and as a consequence the Barlow woman is now lying dangerously wounded from a pistol n the hands of her antagonist, who is languishing in the county jail.

The difficulty was the result of an old feud that has existed between the two women for the past several months. Some time ago they engaged in a quarrel and the Barlow woman left several gashes on the Carson negro as a souvenir of the engagement. They have never been on friendly terms since and when on Sunday evening they met and renewed the difficulty it was with the avowed intention of a fight to the finish. However, this time the Carson woman was loaded for her assailant, and from the result of the encounter it seems that she lost no time in disabling her opponent and departing the field with wreathes of victory upon her brow.

Jackson Argus - Butts County
Week of June 10, 1898

 

Submitted by Don Bankston